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As Berlin collapsed, the final defense wasn’t just German. Frenchmen from the Charlemagne Division, Latvian SS, Spanish Falangists, and even a pair of Britons took up arms to protect a doomed Führer.
As the Soviets closed in, Hitler appointed General Helmuth Weidling to lead Berlin’s defense—despite having just ordered his arrest. Thrust into command, Weidling oversaw a desperate patchwork of ...